Heartbroken Teen Cuddles Boyfriend Before His Life Support Is Turned Off

On Aug 6, 2018 79

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Losing the person you love is devastating at any age, and to deal with this at the age of just fifteen is particularly traumatic.

16-year-old Blake Ward from Dudley was one of three teenagers who were pulled from the sea in Tywyn, Gwynedd in north west Wales. They had encountered difficulties while out swimming, and had to be rescued by emergency surface.

He was airlifted to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, but nothing could be done to save his life.

Just days later, his family were informed he had suffered brain damage and would never recover. And so the heartbreaking decision was made to turn off his life support machine.

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The pain of this final goodbye was captured by Blake’s girlfriend, Stephanie who was photographed cuddling her teenage sweetheart in his hospital bed before the life support was switched off.

Sharing the intensely emotional image on Facebook, 15-year-old Stephanie spoke about how she had stayed by Blake’s side throughout the tragic ordeal:

Today has been the hardest day for me and it will be a day I will never be able to forget. As some of you may know Blake was involved in a terrible accident on Tuesday.

I have been by his side through it all and I haven’t left him.

As you all know Blake was a loving a caring person and would do anything for anyone.

We was told yesterday that Blake would never recover and his brain was to damaged and we had to make the hard decision of turning his machine off and let him go.

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The bereaved teenager continued to explain just how much her relationship with Blake had meant to her:

Blake was someone special to me and we had something special and we will always have that. Me and Blake had our ups and downs but we always got through them.

But just know Blake wasn’t in any pain and he passed away with his family around him and he will forever be missed and he will always have a special place in my heart and I will never forget you Blake fly high my baby boy and I’m gonna make you proud love you and I always will.